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Apple Says Mac Studio and Mac Mini Will Be in Short Supply for Months

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During today's earnings call for the second fiscal quarter of 2026, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that the Mac mini and Mac Studio could be hard to get for months to come.

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"We think, looking forward, that the ‌Mac mini‌ and ‌Mac Studio‌ may take several months to reach supply demand balance," Cook said.

Apple underestimated demand for the ‌Mac mini‌ and the ‌Mac Studio‌. "Both of these are amazing platforms for AI and agentic tools and the customer recognition of that is happening faster than what we had predicted, and so we saw higher than expected demand," Cook said.

Shipping delays for the ‌Mac mini‌ and the ‌Mac Studio‌ have been increasing over the last few months, and the waits for some models stretch into months. Apple stopped selling the ‌Mac Studio‌ with 512GB RAM entirely, and it stopped accepting orders for some models with higher amounts of RAM. As of last week, the base ‌Mac mini‌ was listed as "Currently Unavailable" from Apple's online store because it is out of stock.

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JPack Avatar
JPack
20 weeks ago
This is the key answer in the call: "The primary constraint in the March and June quarter is the availability of the advanced nodes our SOCs are produced on, not memory."
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apple4everOG
20 weeks ago
Mannnn I was waiting for the M5 Studio... sounds like I'll be waiting longer.
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XboxEvolved
20 weeks ago
We live in crazy times. I never thought I’d live to see Macs going out of stock and now they got like three of them supply constrained and popular.
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kalsta
20 weeks ago
I can’t find affordable fuel to get to the Apple Store anyway. Yes, strange times we live in.
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@Brett
20 weeks ago
So once again the AI Ponzi scheme is messing everything up.
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Macaholic868
20 weeks ago

"Both of these are amazing platforms for AI and agentic tools and the customer recognition of that is happening faster than what we had predicted, and so we saw higher than expected demand," Cook said.
So they had zero clue these devices would be so adept at platforms for AI (because they were fumbling the AI football on their end) that it never occurred to them others would pick up the slack and, as such, the hardware they’ve been producing would be in such high demand for AI related tools because they themselves couldn’t make proper use of it.

Tim can’t openly admit to another huge AI related mistake, missed sales due to missed hardware demand forecasting, so he says they “couldn’t have predicted” how popular the hardware would be.

So they’ve been sitting on hardware that’s more than capable of handling AI while their software team has been fumbling it all away for two going on three years, and they could be making money hand over fist in hardware but aren’t producing enough of it because of bad demand forecasting.

Sweet!!!!!!
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